Rear-view mirror for motor vehicles



R J PATTERSON l REAR VIEW MIRROR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Sept. 6,

June' 24 1924.

attocmug Patented .lune 24, 1924.

RALPH JL.' rnrrnnson, or oLAND, Iowa.

REAR-VIEW MIRROR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

Application filed September 6, 1922. ,Serial No. 586,476.

To all whom 'it may concern.' Y

Be it known that I, RALPH J. PATTERSON, citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain ynew and useful Improvements in Rear-View Mirrors for Motor Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.r

This invention relates to an improved rear 1 o view mirror for motor vehicles, being particularly designed for use in connection with closed pleasure vehicles, and seeks, as one of its principal objects, to provide a device of this character which may bemounted above the vehicle wind shield in such position that trac approaching in the rearof the vehicle will be visible through t-he rear window of the vehicle body reflected in the mirror. A further object -of the invention is to provide a device so constructed that when in place, the device will notinterfere with the tilting adjustment of the vehicle wind shield.

And the invention has as a still further 2n object to provide a device wherein the mirror'may be'readily adjusted to practically any desired angle to suit the convenience of 'the driver. t

Other and incidental hereinafter.

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Figure l is a agmentary sectional View Ushowing my improved mirror in connection. with a conventional motor vehicle body.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on-the line Y 3-3 of Figure 2, j

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view on-the line 4--4 of Figure 2, looking in the direction-of the arrows, and v Figure 5 isa detail sectional `view on the yline5-5 of Figurez2, looking inthe direction of the arrows.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ va U-shaped supporting bracket orstrap -10, the ends'of which arebent to provide alined lu s 11. In Fig. 1 ofthe drawings, I have, En convenience, shown the device in connection/ with a conventional vehicle 5o 'body having a front top railv 12 beneath which is mounted the'usual wind shield including a tiltable upper section 13, and, vasv will be observed, the lugs 11 area ertured to receive screws or other suitable asteningk devices 14 securing the bracket to the rail 12 at its inner side. `Extending at its inner objectsy will lappear l Figure 2 is a rear elevationof the device;

end freely through the bracketv medially thereof is a rod or arm 15 upon which are threaded, as shown Iin Figure 3, nutsll confronting opposite side faces of the bracket and", preferably, a lock washer l? is arfjranged beneath the innermost of said nuts. "The arm 15 is curved downwardly at its outer end portion and swiveled upon the outer end of the arm is a block 1 8.A AsV shown in detail in Figure 4,' theblock is formed with an opening therethrou h freely accommodating the arm and threaded upon the arm to confront opposite side faces of the block are nuts 19. Pivotally connected to said block is a mirror 20 held by a backj ing plate 21 and secured to said plate near the periphery thereof is dling the block. Extending freely through oneside of the yoke` and the block is, -as shown in Figure `5, a screw bolt 23 threaded through the opposite-side ofthe yoke kpivotally connecting the mirror with the block.

The bracket 10 is preferably mounted midway between the lsldes of the vehicle bodj7 So that the arm 15 will thus project rearwardly within the vehicle body for supa yoke 22 /stradporting the mirror 20' in convenient view from the drivers seat and, as will be readily understood in View ofthe preceding description, by loosening the innermost of the Y nuts 16, said armmay be adjustably rotated lin either one direction or the other for posi- "tioning the mirror laterally either toward or away from the drivers seat. Furthermore, by loosening the lowermost of the nuts 19, the block 18 may be adj ustablyrotated upon the arm for positioning ythe mirror horizontally in angu ar relation with respect to the drivers seat while loosening the 'pivot y bolt 23 the mirror maybe adjustablyivotedu on said block and thus positione tical y; Accordingly, the mirror may' be verg .arrangedat 'practically any angle desiredwith respectfto the rear window ofthe vehiJ- loo cle bodyas well as with. respect to the driv-I v Athe rear of the vehic e. As brought out in Figure 1, the arm 15 is of vsuch len th that the upper section 13- ofthe vehic e wind shield may ybe adjustably tilted inthe ordinary manner without lnterference by the mirror. v

ers ,seat for reiectin traffic approaching in Having 'thus described the invention,`

inner end portion and terminating in an arcuately curved outer end portion, a block re'- ceiving the outer end 'of the rod tberethrough, a mirror glass pivotally connected with said block, nuts threaded upon the outer end ,of the, rod to confront opposite side faces of the block rotatably connecting the block with the rod whereby the mirror may be edjustably-'swung about the longitudinal axis of tberod and locked by seid nuts, alat metal strap having its ends oiset to orm'attacbing lugs and provided with a straight intermediate pn'tion parallel to said lugs, the intermediate portion o the strap being provided 'with an opening to ex-a tend between the Sidefaces of the strap receiving the straight inner end portion oit the rod therethrough, and nuts threaded upon the inner end of the rod to confront the side faces ot the strapiotatably connecting the rod with the strap whereby tlie rod may be turned about its longitudinal axis or adjustably swinging the mirror glass in an arc described by the outer end of the rod but in a plane parallel to the flat aces of said strap and locked in adjusted position by the latter nuts.l

. ln testimony Whereoit l ax my signature.

RALPH J. ra'rfrnnson. it.. 

